Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost

Stanley Fish

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In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps, one proclaiming that Milton was of the devil's party, the other proclaiming that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achievement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Thirty years later the issues raised in Surprised by Sin continue to set the agenda and drive debate.

Book Details

Publisher: MacMillan
Publish Date: Nov 12nd, 1997
Pages: 361
Language: English
Edition: 1997 - 0002
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.97in - 1.21lb
EAN: 9780333625163
Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Poetry• Semiotics & Theory

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